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last Month. On the 25th Nov. a School was organized in Lebanon. Fifty pupils were enrolled the first day with a prospect of the number increased to One hundred (100) on the 1st Jany next. At Alexandria a school was organized in the 27th of Nov when about forty (40) Pupils were enrolled.

The Freedmen of Lebanon have contributed liberally toward paying the Board and incidental expenses of a Teacher. and I have no doubt will meet the demands upon them for this purpose.  The School at Lebanon will Soon be large enough to warrant and additional Teacher.  The prejudice is so great in the Community against Northern Teachers that those who might be induced to take them into their families under other circumstance are deterred from doing so the general feeling in the town being against it- Many of these people would Starve a Yankee Teacher if they could thereby prevent the Freedmen from being educated.  After making the attempt for two weeks to secure board for a Teacher in a private family I failed and was compelled to allow her to stop at the only Public house in the place at an expense of Seven (7) dollars per week.

On a recent visit to Alexandria I found the Freedmen in a desponding state of mind.  Many complaints were made by them on account of the white Citizens discharging them from labor and refusing to rent them houses to live in.  Upon a Careful inquiry into this matter I found many of those who